Amazon Sued For Copyright Infringement on Movies Including Austin Powers
Jul01

Amazon Sued For Copyright Infringement on Movies Including Austin Powers

When Amazon is mentioned in connection with copyright infringement lawsuits, it’s usually due to its involvement in the global anti-piracy coalition, Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. In those cases, Amazon is always on the offensive but in a lawsuit filed in a New York court, the company itself is being targeted for distributing copyrighted works for which it doesn’t hold a license. The complaint was filed by...

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Court Excoriates ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer and Adds $100,000 in Sanctions
Jul01

Court Excoriates ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer and Adds $100,000 in Sanctions

Over the past several years, photographers have filed thousands of lawsuits against companies that allegedly use their work without permission. The majority of these cases, which include prominent targets such as Yahoo.com, Verizon.com, MSN.com, MTV.com, Gawker.com, are handled by attorney Richard Liebowitz. We first spotted this emerging trend in 2016 and, at the time, Liebowitz told us that he was helping independent photographers...

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Install a Kubernetes load balancer on your Raspberry Pi homelab with MetalLB
Jul01

Install a Kubernetes load balancer on your Raspberry Pi homelab with MetalLB

Kubernetes is designed to integrate with major cloud providers’ load balancers to provide public IP addresses and direct traffic into a cluster. Some professional network equipment manufacturers also offer controllers to integrate their physical load-balancing products into Kubernetes installations in private data centers. For an enthusiast running a Kubernetes cluster at home, however, neither of these solutions is very...

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Back up your phone's storage with this Linux utility
Jul01

Back up your phone's storage with this Linux utility

One of the great failings of mobile devices is how difficult it can be to transfer data from your device to your computer. Mobile devices have a long history of this. Early mobiles, like Pilot and Handspring PDA devices, required special synchronization software (which you had to do religiously for fear of your device running out of batteries and losing all of your data forever). Old iPods required a platform-specific interface....

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How to install Java on Mac
Jul01

How to install Java on Mac

In late May, Java celebrated its 25th anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion, developers around the world used the hashtag #MovedByJava to share their achievements, memories, and insights with the programming language. read...

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